TY - BOOK AU - Durham,Philip AU - Jones,Everett L. TI - The frontier in American literature T2 - Perspectives on American literature AV - PS509.F7 D8 U1 - 813/.008/03 PY - 1969///] CY - New York PB - Odyssey Press KW - Frontier and pioneer life KW - United States KW - Literary collections KW - American literature KW - Littérature américaine KW - Thèmes, motifs KW - Vie des pionniers dans la littérature N1 - Bibliographical references included in "Suggestions for further reading" (p. 384-385) Bibliographical footnotes; The American frontier concept / Walter Prescott Webb -- The significance of the frontier in American history / Frederick Jackson Turner -- What is an American? / Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur -- Preface to The Virginian / Owen Wister -- Pioneers! O pioneers! / Walt Whitman -- The gift outright / Robert Frost -- The history of the Plymouth Plantation / William Bradford -- Escape from the cave / Charles Brockden Brown -- Roger Malvin's burial / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving -- The death of the trapper / James Fenimore Cooper -- It came a Tuesday / Conrad Richter -- Diony's vision / Elizabeth Madox Roberts -- Harry Wilmans and John Wasson / Edgar Lee Masters -- Under the lion's paw / Hamlin Garland -- Scanlon / Wright Morris -- My Ántonia / Willa Cather -- Departure from Winesburg / Sherwood Anderson -- The grizzly and the buffalo / Vardis Fisher -- Survival / Frederick F. Manfred -- The way West / A.B. Guthrie, Jr. -- Virgin earth / Harvey Fergusson -- Calamity Jane / Edward L. Wheeler --; The Jibbenainosay / Robert Montgomery Bird -- The fight / Augustus Baldwin Longstreet -- The big bear of Arkansas / Thomas Bangs Thorpe -- Life on the Mississippi / Mark Twain -- All gold canyon / Jack London -- The Indian well / Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- Honey in the horn / H.L. Davis -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain -- The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte -- Wheat / Frank Norris -- Facing West from California's shores / Walt Whitman -- The girl called Bluejay / Dorothy Johnson -- The blue hotel / Stephen Crane -- The Virginian / Owen Wister -- Shane / Jack Schaefer -- The tin star / John M. Cunningham -- The trap / Clay Fisher -- A day in town / Ernest Haycox -- The ballad of William Sycamore (l790-1871) / Stephen Vincent Benet -- The leader of the people / John Steinbeck -- The buffalo singer / William Brandon UR - http://www.archive.org/details/frontierinameric00durh UR - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL5622304M ER -